For a while now I have had an issue using my favorite IDE's (eclipse, visual studio). Every time I hit ctrl-space (auto complete) it would switch to Chinese characters.
It turns out that ctrl-space is windows hot-key used to switch keyboards. If you have multiple keyboards installed (or say installed by default by your manufacturer who pre-loaded windows for you), the ctrl-space command would be intercepted by windows, and you would switch keyboards to the new language. I don't know if this has anything to do with the fact that the Chinese keyboard was listed first in my properties.
In any event, I just stumbled upon this SO question and it seems to have solved my issues.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/179119/how-to-prevent-windows-xp-from-stealing-my-input-ctrl-space-which-is-meant-for-em
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